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2 unusual facts about ''Ardent''


Ardent

Ardent Studios, a professional recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States

Ardent Leisure, an Australian operator of theme parks and other leisure venues


1782 Central Atlantic hurricane

These were the 110-gun Ville de Paris, the 74-gun ships Glorieux and Hector and the 64-gun Ardent, all captured at the Battle of the Saintes by Sir George Brydges Rodney's fleet, and the 74-gun Caton, captured at the Battle of the Mona Passage by Sir Samuel Hood.

Albert D. Nortoni

Nortoni was an ardent member of the Progressive Party and a strong supporter of Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential election.

Amazon-class frigate

The Amazon class frigates, or Type 21 frigates, comprising eight ships - the Amazon, Antelope, Active, Ambuscade, Arrow, Alacrity, Ardent and Avenger - launched from 1971 to 1975

An Ardent Heart

An Ardent Heart (Gorya′chee se′rdtse, Горячее сердце) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1858 and first published in the January 1869 issue of Otechestvennye Zapiski.

At KROQ

Following the end of "Sing Your Life", the EP's most noted feature is heard: eight full minutes of messages left for Morrissey by ardent, sometimes bordering on obsessive, fans on the voice mail of KROQ-FM personality Richard Blade.

Augustin Ravoux

Jean-Baptiste Faribault, a prolific and influential French Canadian trader who had an established trading post in Little Prairie (present day Chaska), was an ardent proselytizer and invited Ravoux to his post to continue his linguistic studies.

Bernard Joseph Flanagan

Flanagan attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was an ardent supporter of ecumenism.

Black Cat Squadron

After his retirement, he and his family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1986, where he became an ardent activist for ROCAF POWs' rights, particularly the right of POWs to return to Taiwan to reunite with their families after imprisonment in mainland China.

Brian Henneman

Bloodshot Records released the band's next album, Zoysia, recorded in Ardent Studios in Memphis with producer Jeff Powell, in June 2006.

Broome, Western Australia

The campaign has received ardent support from public figures such as John Butler, Missy Higgins, Clare Bowditch and former leader of the Australian Greens, Dr Bob Brown.

Charles Radclyffe

The Radclyffe family were ardent followers of the House of Stuart, James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (1689–1716), being raised at the court of the Stuarts in France as companion to James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender.

Cyrus Engerer

In a highly polarised society, Cyrus Engerer was raised in a politically mixed environment with his father being a traditional Nationalist supporter from Tas-Sliema, while his mother from Valletta was an activist in Partit Laburista, with her family being ardent Mintoff supporters.

David Bandinel

Sir Philip de Carteret was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey by Charles I, and, although a zealous Protestant, was always an ardent loyalist.

Edmundo Searle

He was an ardent turfman and a frequent visitor to Ascot, Epsom and Windsor, becoming a close friend of Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales.

Ferdinando Bartolommei

From the beginning of the revolutionary movement Bartolommei was always an ardent Liberal, and although belonging to an old and noble Florentine family his sympathies were with the democratic party rather than with the moderately liberal aristocracy.

Francesco Maria Piave

Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetzky's Austrian troops retreated from the city, Verdi wrote to Piave in Venice addressing him as "Citizen Piave."

Frederick IV, Elector Palatine

Born in Amberg, his father died in October 1583 and Frederick came under the guardianship of his uncle John Casimir, an ardent Calvinist.

Henry L. Dawes

In late 1871 and early 1872, Dawes became an ardent supporter of the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

Ignatius of Moscow

At that time, Ignatius was also an ardent opponent of the Unia.

Ivo Ćipiko

After the war, Ćipiko became one of the most ardent proponent of Jovan Skerlić's unitarian ideas along with other Serbian writers from Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as Mirko Korolija, Niko Pucić, Svetozar Ćorović and Aleksa Šantić.

James Wallace Quinton

In the earlier of those years he was an ardent supporter of Lord Ripon's policy, which the majority of Anglo-Indians strongly disapproved.

Japanese submarine I-12

The Ardent and the frigate Rockford were escorting a six-ship convoy midway between Honolulu and the United States.

Josephine Phelan

Josephine Phelan (1905-1979), Canadian writer and librarian, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1951 for The Ardent Exile, a biography of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

Luis Ruiz Suarez

On a personal level, Father Ruiz was said to be an ardent fan of Formula One, Real Madrid and Rafael Nadal.

Mazkeret Moshe

Mazkeret Moshe was founded in 1882 from the ardent financial support of British Jewish financier and banker, Moses Montefiore.

Mike Cowan

He is an avowed "Deadhead" (ardent fan of the American rock and roll band The Grateful Dead), and is a member of Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland where he resides with his wife, Jennifer, and their child, Bobbie.

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński

His stay in Germany brought him close to Protestantism but he later became an ardent Catholic and his religious devotion is reflected in his poems.

Nanak Singh

It was translated into Hindi and several other Indian languages and was adapted into a successful motion picture (Pavitra Paapi) in 1968 by his ardent admirer, Balraj Sahani.

Nochum Shtif

Following the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, he became an ardent Zionist and helped establish the radical student Zionist organization, Molodoy Izrail (Young Israel), and also participated in the 1902 Minsk Zionist Conference.

Paul Buchignani

Through his association with Ardent engineers and producers John Hampton and Jeff Powell, Buchignani built a relationship with Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs.

Provisional Government of National Defence

At this point the first rifts appeared among the Greek leadership: The very capable Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos, an ardent admirer of Great Britain, supported entry in the war on the side of the Entente, while the King, who had been educated in Germany, married to the Kaiser's sister, and a deep admirer of Prussian militarism, anticipated a German victory.

Rodgers Townsend

The agency has also done work for AmerenUE, Anheuser Busch, Ardent Reels, Con-way Freight, Express Scripts, Maritz, Nawgan, PBS, Scottrade, St. Louis Children's Hospital, United States Marine Corp, Washington University in St. Louis and White Wave Foods.

Santoshi Mata

However, it was the 1975 Bollywood film Jai Santoshi Maa ("Hail to Santoshi Maa")—narrating the story of the goddess and her ardent devotee Satyavati—which propelled this then little-known "new" goddess to the heights of devotional fervour.

Sarala Temple

It is well documented that Sidheshwar Parida - a small time farmer and part-time Oriya Paika - was an ardent follower of the Goddess and it was after her blessings that Sidheshwar Parida became Sarala Das, the author of the Oriya Mahabharata.

The End: Hitler's Germany 1944–45

With American troops on the outskirts of Ansbach, the local commandant, Dr Ernst Meyer, an ardent Nazi, insisted on fighting to the end.

Thirumangai Alvar

He in many respects a dynamic figure, ardent in love, spectacular in his deeds, a rebel and a social reformer, even a kind of Robin Hood, and above all an exquisite lyricist.

This Modern World

I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man is an ardent defender of Adam Smith's invisible hand metaphor, and usually intervenes in situations where the purity of free market economics is in jeopardy.

Timothy Matlack

In the years that followed he was an ardent defender of this frame against such critics as Benjamin Rush, James Wilson and John Dickinson.

Toni del Renzio

His key work Arson: An ardent review. Part One of a Surrealist Manifestation in 1942 was partially financed by Ithell Colquhoun whom he married in 1943 and divorced in 1948.

USS Ardent

USS Ardent is also the name of a fictional US destroyer escort in the X-Files episode Død Kalm.

V. K. Gokak

He was an ardent devotee of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and also served as the first Vice-Chancellor of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning at Puttaparthi, Anantapur District between 1981 - 1985.

Vassilis Papazachos

He was an ardent opposer of Panayotis Varotsos and the VAN method for earthquake prediction, which he called "the greatest science joke of the century".

Venus Versus Virus

In the anime, Layla loves konpeito candy as much as Lola loves chocolate; in the manga, both twins are ardent fans of Pocky-like sticks, and are often seen munching on them.

Victor de Buck

What apparently gave rise to these accusations were the amicable relations established, principally through correspondence, between Victor de Buck and such men as Alexander Forbes, the learned Anglican bishop, and the celebrated Edward Pusey in England, Montalembert, and Bishop Félix Dupanloup in France and a number of others whose names were distasteful to many ardent Catholics.

William Casson

William was an ardent Quaker who was closely involved with Thorne Friends Preparative Meeting as well as a member of Balby Monthly Meeting.

Zachary Macaulay

His sister Jean had married Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, a country gentleman and ardent evangelical, and soon after Macaulay went to stay with them he began to come under their influence.

Zygmunt Szkopiak

An ardent anti-communist he was a supporter of the Western Goals Institute and was present at their dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand on 25 September 1989 for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.


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